Reputation shortcoming in academic publishing
Table 1
Characteristics of all Nature journals included in the study. Research and editorial experiences are computed for editors who had no homonym: thus, in some journals, only one editor satisfied this criterion, yielding a standard deviation (SD) equal to 0. ‘Editorial experience’ is limited to the experience at Nature journals. Research and postdoc were experienced prior to the editors being appointed by Nature journals. The number of articles as first or last author refers to original articles (see supplementary method for the criteria used to define original articles).